The City Council voted earlier this week to ask the city's Economic/Industrial Development Authority to fund a conceptual design for a 28,000 square-foot grocery store in the Brooks Crossing development in order to get a cost estimate and expedite the process.

NEWPORT NEWS — The City Council slowed down a plan to close the City Farm correctional facility Tuesday, with four members saying they wanted the council and public to be more involved in the decision.

Hampton City Schools will make up four days missed last week due to inclement weather by using two makeup days at the end of the school year and extending two early release days, according to a statement from school district spokeswoman Diana Gulotta.

NEWPORT NEWS — It was the highest-profile piece of undeveloped land in the city — and the value of the 44 acres at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Oyster Point Road has plunged and soared with developer John R. Lawson's ability to negotiate a good price — and new zoning.

The ciy plans to reconstruct Campbell Road from the intersection with Bland Boulevard north to the intersection with Warwick Boulevard – a job for which the council recently approved $500,000 to be spent from a bond authorization.

More than two dozen current and former workers have been added to a race discrimination lawsuit against Newport News Industrial Corp. — with newly filed allegations featuring everything from nooses at the workplace to a racist song sent to a black worker.

A 19-year-old Portsmouth woman is facing multiple charges following a police pursuit that ended in Newport News over the weekend and involved two children reported missing in Chesapeake, an official said.

Five local lawyers and one local judge spoke before a joint panel of the Courts of Justice committee on Monday, making their case as to why they should get judicial seats in Newport News and York County.